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Notes 1/28/14
Riddle:
Leads you to draw a specific conclusion without saying it.
Just claims
We aren’t sure what they did.
What is unstated premise?
Exam the underlying
Island of Stone Money:
Late 1800-circa 1915, Germans owned Yap
Real Story
The Yaps of Yap
Odd Currency (No metal)
Traveled by boats to a distant island but had limestone
Carved Limestone into flat sided bagels (Car sized flat bagels)
Demonstrated wealth
Rock doesn’t move just changes “ownership.”
Wealthy family made the biggest, best shaped, shiniest, largest and heaviest flat bagel.
Ran into a typhoon, cut the Fei free.
Family was known as the wealthiest because of the rock on the bottom of the see.
The family was rich because of a rock only they saw.
Germany buys the island from Spain.
Germans want roads, Yaps refused.
Germans painted the flat bagel as tax.
Germans erased the paint.
Silly.
French asked for gold to be set aside.
Nearly crashed the US Banks again.
Do we even have wealth?
Where is our money?
Where is it? Where are our flat bagels??
Bottom of the sea.
Whose silly now???
I was in class on the 30th, but forgot to submit my notes.
2/4/14
Use We – Inclusive does not single people out and put them down. No doubt with reader. No “quarrel”, have an argument.
Get ride of YOU, don’t separate yourself even subtly.
Google Search Word Order
Food Zip Code
RIP Brandt 😦
Start Simple!
Don’t over explain cause than it won’t be funny.
First Impression and Second Impression.
Be understood first. Be complicated second.
Left Handed and Right Handed molecules. Inorganic matter is made of bot. Living creatures are only left.
Hair part theory. – changing the part in your hair from left right have a drastic effect on your perceived personality.
Pack light.
Write purposefully.
PTSD Contagious?
Reply and revise sentence.
IMPORTANT: Get more cows and potato chips.
Do in class assignments.
A04 = Todays lesson packed lighter.
January 30th attendance noted. I like this note-taking technique, John. Thanks for playing back the day for me. It was an exhausting pace, wasn’t it?
It was certainly faster than the normal pace of your class, but I didn’t find it hard to keep up.
I was here!
Important: Can be turned into tree or vinyl.
Completely didn’t eliminate “you.”
Choose Topic that is important! Covering for 10 weeks.
Professor Appointment Next Thursday.
Agenda discussions.
Present
Coffee Filter Demo: Air trapped in coffee filter underwater. Ask Kevin.
10 Week Topics
How the mind works?
Happiness Talk
I’ll ask you again about your “How the Mind Works” plan, John, when you begin to form an actual hypothesis worth studying. Don’t wait too long. I’ll be eager to help when you get us started.
I am here!
Ivory
Invention of lying.
Olympics and facebook.
Gender categories.
Every document is an argument.
Is this art?
Inventor Artist
Bariatric Surgery
Euthanasia for Kids
New Assignment! Due next week.
Present!
Riddle of the day from the Ben Franklin Institute. Little metal squares.
No Agenda 😦
2 Things for the Day
Safer Saws (A:06)
Claim Types
Classical, Toulmin, Rogerian Model
Reason – Logos
Emotions – Pathos
Ethics – Ethos
Rogerian – Common Ground (Mr. Rogers)
Categories
Arguments
Does X Cause Y??
More discussion on A:06
Demos of the StopSaw
I am here!
Answer a question don’t find the answer.
I started to nod and got hit with a paperclip.
Discussion on Toms Shoes
Crack snorting, over confident teenagers are more likely to fall in the shower than the elderly.
Say Something!
Don’t read defensively.
What do I want to prove?
Examples on Say Something.
Tire tred shoes.
Edit some of me topic.
Multivitamin discussion.
I appreciate these line synopses, John. You’re lucky I found a paper clip. My other choice was a stapler. 🙂
Present
Coin flip.
6 tails, 6 heads, 2 tails. Almost the sign of the beast.
Inference, Judgements, Facts
Possibly Bias? 51%
Claims Video
Organ Donation
We are on a super tangent. Relevance be damned. (It’s enjoyable)
Back to the Claims Video.
I am being grown for my delicious liver.
Discussion on the claims of the video.
Choose video/writing to examine the claims and investigate.
Video requires transcript and timestamp.
Video
1 Hour Claim Video Due Tuesday
Who should get organs?
6 Donors 6 Recipients. Same time.
Denzel Washington. The only actor that matters.
Wrap up.
Accounted For!
Some house cleaning.
Rate my professor.
Comments on things we learned through critical readings.
Everything is an argument.
What is life?
Arguments
Defining Rape
Comment for Feedback on SaferSaws and Critical Reading
I am present.
No agenda.
Professor Hodges is talking about my “RateMyProfessor” review (but doesn’t know it, yet)
Definitional Claims Assignment
The assignment took up almost the whole class
It’s 4:21, class is almost over.
Get to see my grade, get some feedback (hopefully magic beans)
Yours was my favorite “Rate My Professor” review, John. It taught me a lesson, for which I’m very grateful. I don’t know if I delivered on the beans, but the talk was really good, I think for both of us.
Posting here as I always try to do
Feedback
Bailing Lecture
First sentences
In Class assignment
Fix Works Cited
Rework definition essay
There is no final exam. There is no final exam. There is no final exam. There is no final exam. There is no final exam. There is no final exam. There is no final exam. There is no final exam. There is no final exam. There is no final exam. There is no final exam. There is no final exam. There is no final exam. There is no final exam. There is no final exam. There is no final exam.
Present
Story of Dr Adcock
Comment Assignment
Death rate of doctors dropped by 40% when their records became public knowledge.
Forty percent…WHAT?
Google Scholars
Feedback
You can’t always get what you want but if try sometimes…ect. (New focus for essay)
Present
Portfolio details
Visual arguments
Haven’t posted a couple times, but I was certainly there and most likely bugging you about feedback things.